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How to needle felt 3D carrot

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I have made a few carrots with this method and really love the result. A friend told me in facebook page that she placed a bell in her felting cat toy and her cat went nuts on it… lol. Apart the usual photo and written tutorial, again, I have prepared a bionic-woman video to show you the process. Go to next page for all the details. Now, the bunnies I made last year have a permanent carrot boat to sit on {click the link to get the bunny sachet pattern and tutorial].

I find needle felting quite interesting, besides creating beautiful crafts and handmade, it also has some therapeutic effects. When you are frustrated, you jab on the wool to release all the tension and stress. When you can’t focus, you jab the wool and you will find that you get all the concentration that you thought you can’t. When you are happy, you will find every needle going in and out the wool is so beautiful. When you are surrounded with noise, as a temporary escapade, you fall into the small world between the wool and the needle that are quite and peaceful. When you are in pain, you jab with full concentration then you get into meditation and forget about what’s bothering you. Please tell me if you have any of the experience mentioned here above. At least this is what I found through out these few weeks of felting and jabbing and piercing. I truly enjoy it.

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Make Felted Little Birdies [Video Tutorial]

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Previously, you have learned how to make felted egg with wet felting, now, you can decorate the eggs into some cuties with needle felting method. This tutorial is showing little birdies by adding wings, beak, eyes and tail with felt and wool. You can adapt the method and make them into egg-shaped chicks or embellish the eggs with polka dots and stripes just like those at the back. It is all up to your creativity, try to make something out of the box from the eggs.

Again, to show you how I made the little birdie, I made a short video to show you the process with my bionic-women hands. I used ready-made felt mostly for the birdies plus a little wool roving for it’s tail and eyes. It is a lot faster and easier to use pre-cut felt to needle felt to the birdie than jabbing the wool into a desired shape. This time, my voice won’t appear in the video because I added one of my favorite songs as the background music. I hope the subtitle or caption is good enough for you to read through, pause the video if you think I go too fast. I love to craft while listening to my favorite songs, or radio, or sometimes watching TV. But with this craft, I won’t recommend you to watch TV while doing needle felting. You need full concentration when you needle felt to make sure your needle is poking on the right place and not on your fingers or other places. The needle is quite sharp and easy to break if bent, so be sure you know where it goes – straight to the point.

So….. have you got your needle felting tools and materials ready? Let’s go to the tutorial and have fun piercing the eggs!!!

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How to: wet felting easter eggs

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There is a short video clip at the end of the page to show you how to do wet felting. I demo the technique with quill size Easter Eggs, just in time for the upcoming Easter decoration and celebration. Feel free to adapt this method to make felt ball and many other projects as long as it can be done practically, such as felt cover over an object etc….. more to show later.

I have edited the video so that it plays a little faster while I roll the wool, so please don’t think that I am a bionic woman though I always dream to be one (by the way, I was born in the 70′s and Bionic Woman was one of my favorites TV series, oh… and not forgetting Six Million Dollar Man too) . I have made a few video tutorials previously but this is the first time where I narrated it with my own voice. I was laughing out loud with tears in my eyes yesterday when I played it back, please pardon my Asian accent which sounds a little funny but I truly hope that you can understand what I was trying to tell you . Don’t say I didn’t warn you, if you think you can’t take my voice and English, please switch off your speaker, there is a subtitle in the video, so you are not missing anything out. Or, if you think you need something to laugh out loud now, go ahead with the speaker on .

As usual, I included the step-by-step photos and instruction below in case you find it useful to have some still images to refer to.

[Remark: curious about the cute little pom pom chicks in the photo, you can make it with this tutorials, it is an easy project that kids can make too.]

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How to Make Easy Pom Pom Chick

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These pom pom chicks are easy to make, even older kids can do it. Just glue up with all-purpose adhesive to the pom-poms and attach the chicks features. Be it just a basic pom pom chick for Easter decor, or, you can develop into accessories. I showed 2 examples, mobile phone charm and pencil topper. I am sure teenage kids will love to have this pom pom chick mobile phone charm and younger kids will love to bring the pencil topper to school during the Easter season.

I got the idea of making pom pom chick for Easter while shopping at a Japanese dollar shop. I stumbled upon these colorful pom-poms, packed in plastic bags and hang on the display rack, too colorful and too beautiful to resist from buying them home.

I am sure I will have more Easter crafts this year as I still have time to make them . At the mean time, view the following Easter related patterns and tutorials from the previous year:
1. Bunny Sachet
2. Mini Amigurumi Easter Eggs
3. Amigurumi Baby Chick (guest post)
4. Amigurumi Bunny Pencil Holder

For inspiration (no pattern and tutorial):
1. Painted Easter Eggs in a gift box.
2. My Melody Sling Purse

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Heart-Shaped Valentine's Fortune Cookies

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I thought I am going to stop making Valentine’s project for this year as it is just a few days away, but when I saw Martha Stewart’s Felt Fortune Cookies in her book: Martha Stewart’s Handmade Holiday Crafts: 225 Inspired Projects for Year-Round Celebrations and her website, I couldn’t stop myself for not adapting the method and make them into heart-shaped valentine fortune cookies.

The tutorial is easy and the process is quick to make. What really inspired me is that we can slip some candies into the felt cookies…. simply a marvelous idea for some sweat treats for your loved ones or for your valentine guests. For your convenient, I have also prepared a 20 love notes printable for you to download and print.

Oh…. I almost forgot to mention this, you can always make this heart-shaped fortune cookies for any occasion as a little gift for your guest, particularly, as a door gift in a wedding reception

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Counting down to Valentine’s Day, more Valentine’s crafts sharing in Craft Passion!!! I am so excited to make a round up 20 sewing Valentine projects I picked and pinned in Pinterest.

1. Valentine Throw Pillow at U-Create.
2. Quilted Valentine Hearts Pillow at Craft Sew Create.
3. Gathered Heart Pillow at V and Co.
4. Chenille Heart Pillow at Craft Passion.
5. Cross My Heart Pillow at The Polkadot Chair.
6. Chocolate Heart Pillow at Sew 4 Home.
7. Ring Bearer Pillow at Craft Passion.
8. Valentine Voodoo Pincushion at Indie Spotting.
9. Love Sachets at Moorea Seal.
10. Heart Felt Cookies at Ikat Bag.
11. Shaggy Heart Dress With Knee Pad at Make It And Love It.
12. Ruffled Heart Valentine Dress at Make It And Love It.
13. Ruffly Heart Shirt at Craftiness Is Not Optional.
14. Happy Heart Skirt at Infarrantly Creative.
15. Scented Heart Sachet at Craft Passion.
16. Heart Shaped Zippered Pouches at Purl Bee.
17. Heart Gift Bag at Momtastic.
18. Macaron Coin Purse at Craft Passion.
19. Felt Heart Bookmark at Simple Serendipities.
20. Heart Note Book Cover at Craft Passion.

If you haven’t set up an account with Pinterest, please add one soon, I am sure you will love this site as you are able to pin your favorites in an organized way. Please feel free to follow me at Pinterest.

Watch out for other valentine’s crafts coming soon.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Crochet Turkey Coasters And Ornament

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I was inspired by a flower potholder found in Pinterest to come up with this turkey coaster crochet pattern. Using some fall color yarns to crochet the base of the turkey, then outline it to give it a magical touch. The outlining and detailing on the tails really make the different and brighten-up the whole crochet piece. If you wish to turn the turkey to peacock, just use change the yarn colors to green, light blue, dark blue, black and brown.

Wish you all Happy Thanksgiving…. say “Thank you” in any language you know!!! 谢谢 (Chinese), terima kasih (Malay), arigato (Japanese), kamsamnida (Korean), doa jeh (Cantonese Dialect), kamsia (Hokkien Dialect)….

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Sewing Safety Sign Triangle Pillow

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Material:
1. 14″ triangle pillow insert, I used Novelty Triangle Pillow Form from Downlite.
2. 40″ x 15″ Plain Yellow fabric
3. 10″ x 48″ Black felt or faux suede
4. Zipper (Yellow) – at least 14″
5. Cord ¼” dia (Black) – 3 yards
6. Yellow & Black sewing thread

Tools:
1. Sewing Machine
2. Zipper foot
3. Pins & needles
4. Scissors
5. Tracing wheel & carbon
6. Fabric marker or chalk

Download the 5 pages pdf pattern and print them out without scaling the printing, otherwise the size won’t be correct.
Enlarge the first page to 200%.
Cut the patterns out.
{If you can’t download the pdf pattern, probably you don’t have acrobat reader, download the latest version for free here.}

Use the cut-out holes of page 2-5 to trace the 4 safety signs. {I found that it is easier to use the cut-out hole to trace than the cut-out piece}.
If you are tracing on the wrong side of the black felt of faux suede, remember to flip the “High Voltage” pattern to the wrong side too.
Cut the signs out.
{Trace the signs as close to each other as possible to lessen fabric waste. Reserve 3″ x 48″ for piping strips.}
Cut 4 pieces of yellow triangle fabrics with at least ½” seam allowance.
Use tracing wheel and carbon to mark the sewing lines.
Draw a zipper line ½” above and parallel to the base of one of the triangles for zipper installation.
Cut 2 strips of 1½ ” x 48″ for piping installation.

Position the safety signs on the triangles. Pin to secure or you can use some tacky glue to temporary hold them in place. If you prefer fusible web, go ahead but make sure your fabric is able to take the heat. Mine can’t, so I did it the “ancient” way of applique.
Zig-zag sew the edges with black sewing thread of your own stitch spacing preference.
Remove pins.
Encase the cord into the piping strips. Start from the center of the triangle base, lay the piping cord on the sewing lines of the right side of the triangles.
Snip the strip at the corner so that it can bend smoothly.
Allow some allowances on the ends.

Overlap the ends and mark the strips for joining position.
Pin and sew to join. Trim away excess ends by leaving a ½” seam allowance.
Cut away excess cord. Burn the ends lightly to stop the fraying.
Sew the ends together to join it up.
Change to zipper foot to sew the piping to the triangle. Remove pin as you sew.
A triangle with the piping around it. Only 1 triangle needs full piping.
Refer the image below for the arrangement.
Install piping as per red line:
1. Left triangle – pipe on 2 edges only.
2. Right triangle – pipe on the base only.
3. Bottom triangle – No piping needed, install zipper instead.
To install the zipper, fold and press one of the sewing line on the triangle. Align the zipper with the center line along ¼” from the fold edge, baste or pin the zipper under it, top-stitch on the zipper line. Sew the other side of the zipper to the base of the top triangle.
Sew and join all triangles to form a triangle pillow case.
Hand sew the ends of the odd piping ends to the corners of the main triangle.
A complete triangle safety sign pillow case without the insert.
This is the Downlite 14″ Triangle Pillow Form. {Love it!!!}
· Made In America
· Hypoallergenic Down & Feather Blend
· 3 Shapes (Cubes, Spheres & Triangles)
· 3 Sizes (12”, 14” & 16”)
Insert the pillow into the casing from the zipper opening.
There you are – a Triangle Safety Sign Throw Pillow for your home decor.

Either in-person or via the web, it is my pleasure to have met many handicraft hobbyists that generously share among their works and creativity. I am glad to have this site that bring us closer to each other. It is you, dear readers that shared your ingenious ideas to me to develop and create more. It is you that modified some of my patterns to let them have a different look and I really appreciate your inputs. And, I am also delighted that some of you even shared your know how and tutorial of your beautiful craft here in Craft Passion.

(p/s: Submit yours if you have a fabulous tutorial to share.)

I get to know Brenda via Craft Passion Facebook Fan Page, the moment I saw her posted up her photo of the Linking Hearts ring bearer pillow, I fell in love immediately. I wrote to her to ask if she would like to share the tutorial in Craft Passion; to my wishful thinking, she agreed!!! This is how I get to know Brenda….. not knowing that she is also a friend of my secondary school classmate, what a small world!

Let’s get the tutorial on how to hand sew this divine ring bearer pillow. Be it for your own wedding or your friends or your relatives wedding, it sure vows the marriage with happiness.

Tutor: Brenda
Personal Blog: Pepperratzies

On the very special day of every girl’s life, the wedding day, a lot of time and effort are spent to ensure that their dream wedding can unfold right in front of their eyes. Almost every girl would have their wedding day painted with lots of flowers and romantic setting, to mark the end of their single-hood and a celebration to a life of couple-hood.

The ring pillow holds the wedding ring that symbolizes the unity and love of the couple. Making your own ring pillow can be simple and unique as the embellishment that you choose can be something dear to you, something old, something blue or something new.

The design of this ring pillow holds special meaning with the 2 hearts intertwined with chained stitch which brings the meaning of hearts chained together with love.

In this hands on, I used very simple ingredients. The design that I made is called ‘The linking hearts’ for the couple whose hearts are inter-twined.
You will need:
• 2 pieces of 15×15 cm felt cloth
• 2 embellishment of your heart desire
• Satin ribbons
• Needle and thread

First, design your ring pillow. Place the items that you choose into positions that you like until you get the perfect vision. Then you draw out the ‘chain’ that is to link from 1 heart to the other.
Next, the stitches that I used is Chain Stitch, which is also to symbolize the chain for the 2 hearts.
I then place the 2 heart embellishment on top of each end of the chain and stitch them onto the felt cloth.
Once the hearts are on, I chose 2 types of ribbons, a printed one and a satin ribbon to hold the rings. Right on top of the ribbon, I stitched a flower button each to make them prettier. I love buttons in my crafts, so I tried to use them as often as I can.
Once all the items are stitched firmly, join the 2 pieces of felt cloth and use Blanket Stitch to close up the sides. Do not close up the entire 4 sides as you will need to leave a hole for you to stuff Polyfill in. Fill the pillow with Polyfill or cotton, if you like. Finally, close up the ring pillow and Voila!! You will have your very own ring pillow.

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Make a Snowman ornament from polyfoam balls

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10 days to go… I am counting down for the Christmas and singing this all day long ~~ ♥ I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I….. ♥ ~~~ The Christmas spirit is getting higher each and everyday and I am still making Christmas Craft to add into my Christmas decorations. This time it is a snowman where I was inspired by this one which I saw in Singapore.

There is no white Christmas in Malaysia, in reality, I can’t build snowman provided I travel few thousand miles northbound. Well, to quench my thirst for having snow for Christmas, I made a polyfoam snowman instead.

This is a quick craft and it is suitable for kids with a little help and guidance from adult. Let’s get the how-to after this jump….

Finished dimension: Approx. 3 1/4″ (H) x 2″ (W)

Materials:
1. Polyfoam or polystyrene or Styrofoam ball – approx dia. 1″
2. Polyfoam or polystyrene or Styrofoam ball – approx dia. 2″
3. Red felt
4. White yarn
5. Beads, sequins and/or button for embellishment
6. Pearl white glitters

Tools:
1. Scissor
2. Craft Knife
3. Craft glue
4. Hot glue gun
5. Small brush
6. Floral wire
7. Pencil or pen
8. Clothes clip (optional) if you want to bend the hat.
9. Pointy tweezers.

Pre-heat your hot glue gun so that it is ready when you need to use it.
To make the snowman stand-able, cut a small portion from the 2″ polyfoam with craft knife to create a flat base.
If your kids are too small to handle the cutting, please help them to do it.
Place the small polyfoam ball on the top of the base ball, find the correct position so that they are straight, mark.
With help from adult, apply a dot of hot glue on the marking and quickly attach the small ball onto it, hold a few second till the glue is set.
Insert a floral wire into the polyfoam ball assembly, preferably into the head of the snowman.
Brush a layer of craft glue and sprinkle the pearl white glitter to all over snowman except the base.
Set aside for the glue to dry.
While waiting for the glue to dry and glitter to set, prepare the red felt for scarf and hat.
Cut half circle of 3″ diameter for hat and 6″ x 1/2″ for scarf.
I also glittered a 1/4″ bead for the hat.

When the snowman is about half dry (best is to wait till it is completely dry, time needed depends on the viscosity of the craft glue you use), carefully roll the 1/2 circle (with curve side down) onto the head of the snowman, measure the hat size. Mark on the felt.
Apply glue on the overlapping area.

Overlap the 1/2 circle to make a cone hat for the snowman. Set a side for it to dry or at least until it gets tacky.
Apply glue on the internal edge of the hat and glue the hat to the snowman’s head.

Next, glue the white yarn on the edge of the hat.
If you want to bend the hat, apply glue at the back of the hat, around the center of the height. Bend the hat and secure it’s position with a clothes clip (as shown in the next picture).
Glue all the facial features and embellishments to the snowman with craft glue.
Glue the glittered 1/4″ bead to the tip of the hat with hot glue.
Tweezers are handy when handling all these small parts, but be careful when kids are involving.
Carefully roll the scarf onto the neck of the snowman. Twist the scarf a little so that it fits better on the snowman.
Apply glue to secure it.
Set aside overnight to let it dry completely.
~~DONE~~~